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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Russia at war	Werth, Alexander,A. Werth,Alexander Werth	"In 1941, Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth observed the unfolding of the Soviet-German conflict with his own eyes. What followed was the widely acclaimed book, Russia at War, first pri…	OL1158504W
A history of modern Russia	Robert Service	A comprehensive overview of twentieth-century Russian history that treats the years from 1917 to 2000 as a single period and analyses the peculiar mixture of political, economic and social ingredient…	OL11851996W
Cries in the new wilderness	Eve Adler,Mikhail N. Epstein,Mikhail Ėpshteĭn	"Inside the disintegrating Soviet Union, Raisa Gibaydulina, a professor of scientific atheism at the Moscow Institute of Atheism, compiles a selection of articles, sermons, manifestos, and other writ…	OL12027636W
Ivan le Terrible	Henri Troyat	This blood-thirsty Czar is surrounded by murder and intrigue--eight wives, poisoning, tortures, massacres, etc.	OL15214437W
Molotov's magic lantern	Rachel Polonsky	When the author, a British journalist, moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous neighbors was Stalin's henchman V…	OL15420642W
The murder of the Romanovs	Andrew Cook	256 pages ; 21 cm	OL15445575W
The return	Daniel Treisman	Russia has long been a source of puzzlement -- and sometimes alarm -- for Western observers. Since shaking off communism two decades ago, the country has seemed wobbly at best, thoroughly corrupt and…	OL15586600W
From splendor to revolution	Julia P. Gelardi	This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia. As the shadow of revolution fell over the land, an apocalypse destroyed a way of life for these imperial women …	OL15976104W
The man without a face	Masha Gessen	This is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country on…	OL16308317W
Russian citizenship	Eric Lohr	278 pages ; 25 cm	OL16572211W
Russia	Martin Sixsmith	Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist', with an ingrained eagerness to sacrifice the indi…	OL16573275W
The strongman	Angus Roxburgh	Russia under Vladimir Putin has proved a prickly partner for the West, a far cry from the democratic ally many hoped for when the Soviet Union collapsed. Abroad, Putin has used Russia's energy streng…	OL16638546W
Restless empire	Ian R. Barnes	1 atlas (xvii, 222 pages) : 29 cm	OL17293387W
Brief History of Russia (Brief History)	Michael Kort	This book covers the history of Russia, the world's largest nation -- from its early beginnings in the ninth century when Rurik, a Varangian king, established the first Russian state near Kiev, to th…	OL1824856W
Russia	Gregory L. Freeze	xxiii, 632 p., [16] p. of plates : 20 cm	OL18545099W
Russia	Martin Sixsmith	The full and fascinating story of Russia, from its founding in the waning years of the tenth century to its resurgence of wealth and power in the early years of the twenty-first, skillfully tracing t…	OL19662564W
Red October	Douglas Boyd	In this timely publication, Douglas Boyd shows how this still-flying banner of revolution changed the world.	OL19733484W
Tolstoy's false disciple	Alexandra Popoff	On the snowy morning of February 8, 1897, the Petersburg secret police were following Tolstoy's every move. At sixty-nine, Russia's most celebrated writer was being treated like a major criminal. Pro…	OL19990843W
Empire of extinction	Ryan Tucker Jones	"In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and …	OL20005179W
Black dragon river	Dominic Ziegler	"Black Dragon River is a personal journey down one of Asia's great rivers that reveals the region's essential history and culture. The world's ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of …	OL20017499W